My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.

Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard.

Those remaining in Zion, those left in Jerusalem, will be called “holy,” all in Jerusalem who are destined to live.

Trust in the Lord from this time forward, even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector!

Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries.”

Since you are precious and special in my sight, and I love you, I will hand over people in place of you, nations in place of your life.

As for all the kings of the nations, all of them lie down in splendor, each in his own tomb.

I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.”

All of them will come and make their home in the ravines between the cliffs, and in the crevices of the cliffs, in all the thorn bushes, and in all the watering holes.

He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

In the year King Ahaz died, this message was revealed:

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.

In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.

All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

Those who put their hope in Cush and took pride in Egypt will be afraid and embarrassed.

I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the Lord, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.

Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.

You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith, for they trust in you.